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Adolf and Catharina Croeser, Known as ‘The Burgomaster of Delft and his Daughter’
Legs wide apart and his right arm akimbo, Croeser sits on the stoop of his house on the Oude Delft canal in Delft. His thirteen-year-old daughter Catharina looks straight out at us. Jan Steen included a narrative element in this portrait: a poor woman and child beg for alms from the wealthy grain merchant. In 1657, just two years after this portrait was made, Croeser stood surety for Steen, who wa…
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/46A21
- http://iconclass.org/25I241
- http://iconclass.org/46A151
- http://iconclass.org/25G411
- http://iconclass.org/42B7412
- Oude Kerk (Delft)
- Oude Kerk (Delft)
- Croeser, Adolf
- Croeser, Catharina
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Fonds, the Nationaal Aankoopfonds of the Ministerie van OCenW, the BankGiro Lottery, the Stichting Nationaal Fonds Kunstbezit, the VSBfonds, the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and the Rijksmuseum Fonds
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/46A21
- http://iconclass.org/25I241
- http://iconclass.org/46A151
- http://iconclass.org/25G411
- http://iconclass.org/42B7412
- Oude Kerk (Delft)
- Oude Kerk (Delft)
- Croeser, Adolf
- Croeser, Catharina
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Fonds, the Nationaal Aankoopfonds of the Ministerie van OCenW, the BankGiro Lottery, the Stichting Nationaal Fonds Kunstbezit, the VSBfonds, the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and the Rijksmuseum Fonds
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1655
- 1655
Place-Time
- third quarter 17th century
Provenance
- Christianus Johannes Nieuwenhuys, the dealer (son of Lambert Jan, see above), London by whom sold to Colonel the Hon. Edward Gordon Douglas (1800-86), later Douglas-Pennant (1841), and 1st Baron Penrhyn of Llandegai (1866), Penrhyn Castle, Caernavon (Wales); by decent to Hugh Napier Douglas-Pennant (1894-1949), 4th Baron Penrhyn of Llandygai, who left Penrhyn and its estates to his niece, Lady Janet Marcia Rose Harper (1923-97), née Pelham, who, with her husband John Charles Harper (?-1998), thereupon assumed the name of Douglas-Pennant;{Provenance reconstructed in Grijzenhout/Van Sas 2006, pp. 15-30} one of their heirs Richard Charles Harper Douglas-Pennant (1955-), € 11,900,000, to the museum, with support from the Nationaal Aankoopfonds from the Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschappen, sponsor Loterij, Stichting Nationaal Fonds Kunstbezit, Mondriaan Stichting, VSB Fonds, Vereniging Rembrandt, jointly facilitated by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Rijksmuseumfonds, 2004
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.422482
- SK-A-4981
Extent
- height 106 cm
- width 96 cm
- depth 8 cm
Format
- canvas
- oil paint (paint)
- Canvas
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1655
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:16:48.294Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:38:13.604Z